Again and again and again, Alberta’s wind power totally collapses to effectively zero. It got really low at supper on Tuesday, dropping to around 15 megawatts, which is pretty much nothing since their nameplate capacity has grown, again, now to 3,076 megawatts.
But by 12:30 a.m., it dropped to just 3 megawatts. That’s out of hundreds of turbines costing many billions of dollars.
Oh, and you have to look at how much the $100 million or so worth of batteries have contributed in the last month. Take a guess.
But hey, Microsoft just signed on to buy a whole schwack of wind power. Does your Azure server rely on Alberta wind?
If nothing else it’s consistent, poor but consistent.
Even on good days they don’t earn their cost. But they are very consistent in harvesting subsidies
Billions of dollars sitting on its arse freezing. Not producing a bloody thing except for subsidies – which are keeping the subsidy whores nice and snug while the mugs paying for this shit are freezing in the dark.
How long before you lazy bastards get up off your arses and start tearing these monstrous Ecocrucifixes down?
Yet the coal fired production was over 95% of nameplate.
We just need one thousand times more windmills.
Does Alberta make it easy to find out what the efficiency of their wind turbines are? In Saskatchewan, they admit that over the year the wind turbines make about 12% of their nameplate installed capacity. I’m sure the expert class ignores that in their claims that wind is cheaper than any other power generator…
JD – wind and solar energy are free, didn’t you know?
Nothing is as expensive as something that the government claims is “Free”
We’ve known for years that wind at best gets 20% on average nameplate capacity, and is frequently zero. That’s just math, although I have no idea if wind speeds follow a normal curve or are skewed left or right.
trust the plan. If you don’t know the plan, it’s because they think you’re too stupid to understand.
If we can’t get even a supposed conservative province like AB or SK to say out loud, “You know what? Trying to go all-in on solar and wind for the electrical grid is flat out stupid because it won’t freaking work, and anyone saying otherwise is lying to you,” then what hope have any of the rest of us? This entire country will be freezing in the dark within ten years. Nothing else will even matter, and there’ll be no easy way back.
Stay tuned.
When Danielle Smith was a talking head on Corus radio she railed against the inefficiency of wind. Last night she won in a by-election.
If only there were a way to make those activist bastards freeze in the dark when that happens.
It’s a good thing Alberta is populated and run by good rational conservative folk otherwise they might have problems with stupid stuff like wind power and unicorn farts.
RS, your sarcasm is cutting.
If you live in Calgary and it’s cold, you can actually see this happening. The natural gas power plant in the NE, just east of Metis trail, and the one at the east end of Glenmore will be working their little hearts out when the wind stops, and you can see the two plumes of condensed water exhaust reaching a kilometre into the sky. When the plumes are straight up, you know they’re taking up the slack from useless windmills.
Eventually they will produce nothing and then they will stand where they are until they rot and fall down.
Glad to see Brian used one of my photos. I made this graphic last night.
Many UCP MLAs think wind and solar are the cat’s ass. They need to instruct AUC to stop approving more of these absurd projects.
https://i.ibb.co/PT9f7vL/extreme-cold-nov-8-2022.jpg
The green Jacobins and Bolsheviks that now dominate the institutions need to learn that their eco-crucifixes are a waste of global fossil fuels as during their short life cycle and pathetic ROE they are more CO2 producing than Gas or Coal for the same energy produced at greater cost and totally unreliably.
Can’t logic a Prog. Gotta appeal to their “feelz”. Like, f’rinstance, plunking their stupid, willfully ignorant asses out inna snowdrift at -27° (current conditions in Lethbridge) on a heating blanket powered by and in the middle of a windless wind farm for a night.
I’m thinking their “feelz” would get an eddication, right smart-like.
John
It’s a god damn religion, and by now you should know what I think of religions!
More effective to say, roughly one out of every 1000 Albertans had electricity generated by the wind.
What was the cost of building those 3076 megawatts of non-generating capacity?
Maybe it’s time for progressive Alberta to move on to green hydrogen?
Clearly, wind has been an incomplete success as far as generating electricity goes, and green hydrogen promises rich returns of votes, and graft.
No such thing as “green” hydrogen. Hydrogen is normally obtained by electrolyzing water, and so you need vast amounts of electricity to do that, and you always get less energy out than you put in, so “green” hydrogen is expensive. And it cannot be conveniently liquified like natural gas. It takes big, heavy, strong tanks to store it under pressure.
Any time I see “green” this or that, I smell ignorance.
Green hydrogen is part of the grift. Get it?
“ …. an important part of the green energy portfolio will be green hydrogen, made using electricity from renewables, like wind and solar…”
A compound grift.
Yes. All green policies can only be sold by by keeping the masses ignorant, and the politicians corrupt.
Like in Canada, for example, which sits on a huge amount of untapped and cheap energy, but has convinced people to pursue green.
I don’t think people have been convinced, they’ve never been asked. It is being forced upon them. You will own nothing, have communal heat and eat rations, and you will be happy.
You can produce as much “green” hydrogen as you want but other than costing inordinate amounts once you burn hydrogen you create water vapour which is a more significant green house gas than CO2 by orders of magnitude.
You are wasting your efforts producing hydrogen.
Just drill baby drill
Are these numbers net of idling/standby power consumption for the installation?
I believe they run 2 meters. One for power going into the grid and another for the draw from the grid.
You are right to keep your eye on the numbers ball; they cheat all the time.
BTW Isn’t the secret of the pea-cup trick that the pea is under none of the cups until a choice has been made by the mark.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Any meteorologist, or any Commercial pilot like I was, can tell you that the hottest days in the summer and the coldest days in the winter are when high-pressure air masses settle over a region. High-pressure masses generate little or no wind. Period. They bring clear skies, which in the summer let a lot of sunlight in and the heat piles up. In the winter, the sun is low, bringing little heat, and any heat radiates off into space at night when the skies are clear. The presence of snow also reflects much energy back into space through a clear sky.
So extreme cold and extreme heat, and no wind power right when you need it the most. It’s just that simple and easy to understand. If you know anything at all.
But of course, the decision-makers do not consult meteorologists. They bend to the agitators, who know even less. Ruling from ignorance. What could go wrong?
Thanks for that lesson, Dan, I thought it was the case.
Well as it was once explained to me, if they work some of the time, that’s less water that has to go over the waterfalls.
(it’s a joke)
That’s a continual 62MW from a nameplate of 198MW, apparently, from 38 swindlemills. That means they have to produce 33% of the installed capacity, continuously. Quite unlikely and not real world. I bet I know who pays, the tax-payer and the suckers who buy carbon credits. And, after 15 years, who clears up the mess. A nuclear power station, or coal or nat-gas station, cab be used for 50-100 years and can be upgraded.
Notice, also, that none of the players in the article, the owners in TO or Calgary or buyer in Seattle, will ever notice the effect of their outsourced power, they stuck it to the red-knecks in their opinion.
https://www.wind-watch.org/faq-output.php
Now come on! You can see those ads for Mercedes Benz better if they’re not turning
(building on a previous post that concludes that they actually have nothing to do with power, they’re subliminal advertising)
Great news. Wind power production in Alberta has increased by 1400%!!!!
Rachel Notley is going orgasmic.
Er… it increased from 3 MW to 44 MW.
3030 MW is not working.
This means every Albertan can use one 10 watt light bulb.